The petition was started by Yumi Ishikawa, who says she was made to wear high heels while working at a funeral parlor, the BBC reports. She took to Twitter to vent about being forced to wear heels, ...

It was back in 2015 that designers Rachel Mansur and Floriana Gavriel announced they’d be branching out from their brand Mansur Gavriel and its beloved bucket bags into footwear and ready-to-wear by ...

Tokyo -- Japanese women are saying, "No," to high heels in what's been dubbed the #KuToo movement, a play on the words for "shoes" and "agony" and an allusion to the #MeToo hashtag. The #MeToo ...

BEIJING – Chinese patrol boats have harried the Japanese Coast Guard many times a week for more than a month in an unusually relentless response to their latest maritime spat. Four Chinese craft ...

A simple pair of striped socks from Japanese convenience stores has become a global cult item. But how did an everyday ...

Japan Airlines is offering to check a big item off your packing list – clothing. The airline is helping pilot a new service called Any Wear, Anywhere, which lets passengers rent all the clothes they ...

HAMILTON, New ZealandHAMILTON, New Zealand — Japanese players wore black armbands in their Women’s World Cup opener against Zambia on Saturday following the death of Fumiko Tottori, the mother of ...

Japan on Monday dropped its request for people to wear masks after three years, but hardly anything changed in the country that has had an extremely high regard for their effectiveness at anti-virus ...

A poster calling on customers to wear masks is seen at a convenience store in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on March 3, 2023. (Mainichi/Tomohiro Tsujimoto) TOKYO -- Major retail businesses in Japan have ...